How Do I Design Visual Aids?
Visual aids help turn a good presentation into a great presentation. People understand information better when they see a picture, graph or chart to accompany written or spoken words. Whether you want to prove to your investors that your company is turning a profit or you want to teach children about the benefits of a healthy diet, visual aids help prove your point and keep people interested in your message.
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Instructions
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Creating Your Visual Aid
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Decide on the message you want to enhance and how to best accompany it with a visual aid. A presentation on finances will benefit from charts and graphs while a presentation on a new prototype may require sample drawings. Look at your written presentation and chose the areas that will benefit most from visual aids.
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Use your word processor to make a graph or chart. In Microsoft Word you can do this by going to the "Insert" menu and choosing "Object." Then chose "Create New" and "Microsoft Graph Chart." Other word processors should have similar methods.
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Print your chart and paste it to a poster board or add the chart to an electronic presentation program such as Power Point.
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Search the Internet or your image library for appropriate pictures to serve as visual aids. You may want to draw a picture yourself if your presentation deals with innovation or products not currently on the market.
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Insert the pictures into the documents you will use in your presentation.
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If necessary, print your pictures and paste them to your poster board.
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Tips & Warnings
Chose complementary colors for charts and graphs. Colors such as red, green and blue are easy on the eyes and easy to differentiate for most people.
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- Photo Credit chart background image by Stasys Eidiejus from Fotolia.com
